Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these?

John Keats,
Ode on a Grecian Urn, from
John Keats: The Complete Poems.
Christopher Ricks, gen. ed. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.